MARKET DRAYTON FOODBANK

Registered charity 1198835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Market Drayton Foodbank aims to relieve and prevent poverty in the Market Drayton Area by providing emergency food supplies and by signposting to other agencies.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN MARKET DRAYTON, SHROPSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (OR SUCH WIDER AREA AS MAY SEEM APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME WHEN WORKING WITH PARTNER AGENCIES AND NETWORKS), BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED/CRISIS AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO UNDERSTAND, PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY AND IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLIES, SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER AGENCIES AND ANY OTHER MEANS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE TRUSTEES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained financial stability with £182,329 in reserves, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of holding reserves equivalent to 12 months' running costs. The trustees reported no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The principal source of funding is identified as regular individual donors, with occasional additional fundraising events.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Market Drayton Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Strudleychair
• Gary Groves
• Sally Ann Frances Lillian Gallivan
• Vincent Craig · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Shropshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LETCHWORTH FOODBANK.

• LETCHWORTH FOODBANK income £228k
• GRANTHAM FOODBANK income £279k
• TRURO FOODBANK income £200k
• NORTHERN DEVON FOODBANK income £236k
• Food Bank Aid income £775k
• NUNEATON FOODBANK income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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